Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

Steve Jobs (co-founder & CEO of Apple)

The Commerce Secretary said the budget puts American entrepreneurs and workers in prime position to innovate and create wealth for their businesses, their families and their nation.

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Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new.

Nicolo Machiavelli -- The Prince

behold, what innovation it makes here:

William Shakespeare -- Othello, the Moor of Venice

I think their inhibition comes by the means of the late innovation.

William Shakespeare -- Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

But the business about the mistakes I never heard before. That is something new. That is Reb Saunders’ innovation.

Chaim Potok -- The Chosen

Buxom lasses, almost as antiquated as their mothers, excepting where a straw hat, a fine ribbon, or perhaps a white frock, gave symptoms of city innovation.

Washington Irving -- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Which gape and rub the elbow at the newsOf hurlyburly innovation.

William Shakespeare -- Henry IV, Part 1

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...no one has any really innovative thoughts.

Suzanne Collins -- Mockingjay

Thomas helped Newt distribute the weapons, and even more innovative ones were created in their desperation to be prepared for the Grievers.

James Dashner -- The Maze Runner

In the manufacturing realm, they had a hundred and fifty people, and they worked closely together and there was peer pressure about how to be the best and how to be the most innovative.

Malcolm Gladwell -- The Tipping Point

[He was] responsible for an innovative school recycling program now implemented in districts around the country,

Sarah Dessen -- The Truth About Forever

While some critics saw it as a boldly innovative departure, others ... called the collection a failure.

Nicole Krauss -- The History of Love

"Melisma," Owen said after a moment, "is innovative and textured."

Sarah Dessen -- Just Listen

Candor does not provide us with protection, sustenance, or technological innovation.

Veronica Roth -- Insurgent

He ran on a platform of improving the school system, fighting illiteracy, and trying to find innovative solutions to the metastasizing drug trade that was poisoning life in major areas of the city.

Wes Moore -- The Other Wes Moore

Man of the Year by the Kiwanis Club, a postwar May-comb innovation, usually meant Young Man Going Places.

Harper Lee -- Go Set a Watchman

Another innovation born here.

Dave Eggers -- The Circle

It needs to be a paper on innovation, and it has to be based on the textbook.

Piper Kerman -- Orange Is the New Black

And Silicon Valley has some of the smartest, most innovative monkeys in the world.

Susan Ee -- Angelfall

His energy caught the attention of the Phoenix Jaycees, a charitable organization of businessmen, who named Fredi the city’s Most Innovative Teacher in 1988.

Joshua Davis -- Spare Parts

But I’m afraid that in this particular instance it would result in one of two things: a string of innovative new expletives or her knee in my balls.

Katja Millay -- The Sea of Tranquility

The next brilliant innovator arose and said, quite surprisingly, "I feed the hog.

Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide

…the Nazis of which Rubenstein writes (extending Arendt’s thesis) is a "society of total domination," evolving directly from the institution of chattel slavery as it was practiced by the great nations of the West, yet urged on to its despotic apotheosis at Auschwitz through an innovative concept which by contrast casts a benign light on old-fashioned plantation slavery even at its most barbaric: this blood-fresh concept was based on the simple but absolute expendability of human life.

William Styron -- Sophie’s Choice

And yes—scholars might care about the innovative brushwork and use of light, the historical influence and the unique significance in Dutch art.

Donna Tartt -- The Goldfinch

* I shall certainly adopt an innovation and call him simply Bonaparte!

Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace

Milo was by nature opposed to any innovation that threatened to disrupt the normal course of affairs.

Joseph Heller -- Catch-22

But its success is best understood not in terms of its curriculum, its teachers, its resources, or some kind of institutional innovation.

Malcolm Gladwell -- Outliers

Who introduced this innovation? and by what authority?

Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre

Such an innovation on the silence and retirement of the forest could not fail to enlist the ears of those who journeyed at so short a distance in advance.

James Fenimore Cooper -- The Last of the Mohicans

Foaly’s innovation, of course.

Eoin Colfer -- Artemis Fowl

They were a special innovation and are now useless.

Frank Herbert -- Dune

"Yes, of course," said Marilla, as if getting boys from orphan asylums in Nova Scotia were part of the usual spring work on any well-regulated Avonlea farm instead of being an unheard of innovation.

Lucy Maud Montgomery -- Anne Of Green Gables

However, she was determined to accomplish it, for Rhett was coming to supper and he always noticed and commented upon any innovation of dress or hair.

Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind

The innovation—ary—" he tasted the coinage doubtfully, "—steps, that you will agree are necessary, will cost twenty thousand dollars American.

F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Tender is the Night

An innovator educationally and otherwise, Aslam had painted the walls of his house with bold geometric designs in primary colors.

Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin -- Three Cups of Tea

Robert Coover has a story called "The Gingerbread House" (1969) whose innovation is that the two children aren’t called Hansel and Gretel.

Thomas C. Foster -- How to Read Literature Like a Professor

This is not least true of our next key phrase, a new scientific method, another Renaissance innovation which I will tell you about.

Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie’s World

Donald Farfrae was in the minds of both as the innovator, for though not a farmer he was closely leagued with farming operations.

Thomas Hardy -- The Mayor of Casterbridge

The innovation, if not wrong as an innovation, will be wrong as an expense.

Jane Austen -- Mansfield Park

But to this day it exists in few monasteries only, and has sometimes been almost persecuted as an innovation in Russia.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Brothers Karamazov

He’d been innovating extensively.

Robert M. Pirsig -- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

This was Reverend Mokitimi’s innovation of having male and female students dine together in hall at Sunday lunch.

Nelson Mandela -- Long Walk to Freedom

On one such night I got into bed next to Babette and told her how the chancellor had advised me, back in 1968, to do something about my name and appearance if I wanted to be taken seriously as a Hitler innovator.

Don DeLillo -- White Noise

Those guys just kept innovating!

James Patterson -- Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

Her only innovation was painting the pine table a black and orange rather shocking to the Thanatopsis.

Sinclair Lewis -- Main Street

…schemes, driven equally on by hope and despair: that as for himself, being not of an enterprising spirit, he was content to go on in the old forms, to live in the houses his ancestors had built, and act as they did, in every part of life, without innovation: that some few other persons of quality and gentry had done the same, but were looked on with an eye of contempt and ill-will, as enemies to art, ignorant, and ill common-wealth’s men, preferring their own ease and sloth before the…

Jonathan Swift -- Gulliver’s Travels

On the door hung a heavy brass knocker, an innovation introduced into the village by Helen White’s mother, who had also organized a women’s club for the study of poetry.